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Tuesday, 4 February 2014

1940s Tea Dress Pattern Giveaway!!!

**THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, THANKS EVERYONE WHO ENTERED**

To celebrate their first sewalong for their new sewing pattern range, 'Sew Over It' is offering readers of this blog the opportunity to score themselves a 1940s Tea Dress sewing pattern (pictured above). This dress style is a gorgeous, updated version of a vintage look that I guarantee looks amazing in both printed and solid fabrics. In fact, this pattern is close to my heart as it is one of the classes that I have taught at 'Sew Over It's' bricks and mortar shop/sewing school in South London, plus I helped develop the instructions for this pattern. Check out Lisa's delightful peaches and cream silk version pictured below, plus you can see my black version of this pattern here.

How to Enter:

There are three copies of this pattern up for grabs. This giveaway/competition is open internationally and with no cost to yourselves. All you have to do is help 'Sew Over It' decide which of their in-the-flesh classes they should release as a sewing pattern next. So head over to the classes page of their website and decide which garment you'd most like to be made available as a pattern and leave a comment in the comment box of this post. Along with your answer, please leave a way for me to contact you if you are successful (i.e. if I can't find your email address within two clicks of my mouse, leave your email address in the body of the comment). Email addresses will not be used for anything other than contacting you if you win this giveaway.

Make sure you have commented by midnight GMT on Wednesday 12th February to enter. The following day I will use a random number generator to select three winners for the three copies of the 1940s Tea Dress sewing pattern and contact them to get their postal addresses to forward on to Sew Over It so they can send out the prize.

Love this site how great to be able to choose from such a great range. I think the 1940s wrap dress is one I'd love to use so flattering but still a really interesting silhouette. Fingers crossed I love the tea dress too and we've just moved countries so I have about 3 patterns to my name! :o)

I know she's already released the ultimate wrap dress, but I think her 40's wrap dress is just so stunning and not like any pattern I've seen elsewhere. She should release that one! Artgirlrachel at gmail.com

The tea dress is lovely. The other patterns are great too. Ideally I'd like to move into their shop and work my way through the course list, do they do full board? The ultimate shift dress looks fab as does Joan, what a tricky choice, glad I don't have to decide. I'll go ultimate shift. Thanks for the opportunity, now I'll be dreaming of the tea dress in a slightly quirky fabric instead of thinking about work stuff. shelley@gibbfamily.co.uk

I have been eying the Joan dress for a while but sense I don't live nearby and therefore don't have the opportunity to take a class is has been only eying. It would be wonderful to be able to bye it as a pattern instead. The bow blouse is another one of my favorites as well as this one the 40's tea dress, amazing. mail a docksjo dot com

I did your ultimate shift dress and full circle skirt class before you had any commercial patterns available. At the time I was desperate for your tulip skirt pattern to practice further with (learn lining, darts) so I'd recommend that. Now I've come on a bit further in my sewing i'd definitely buy the vintage shirt dress.

The Lace Dress, definitely. I'm often tempted by lace in RTW but it usually turns out scratchy and unpleasant. I love the idea of a dress pattern with tips on working with lace, plus it could be made up in other fabrics for a completely different look.

What a treat. I'd like to vote for the Vintage wrap dress (narrowly edged out the Joan for me) please. Your version of the tea dress is delightful. My address is lawson(dot)rachel(at)gmail(dot)comThank you :-)

Definitely the cowl neck dress. What a sweet little jersey number, quick sewing at its best for those sew-today-wear-tomorrow weekday projects. I love the tea dress though! Thanks for the giveaway. Hen x (hfritzsch (at) hotmail.com)

I think the vintage tea dress is probably the coolest but I already have a similar pattern so... (ahh, so hard to choose as there are a lot of great options!)... the coco jacket. The cowl dress was a close runner up.

I love the shirt dress, but possibly partly because I have already made myself a dress in that fabric ;-). My choice would be for the 40s wrap dress, it looks very stylish and versatile. And I haven't seen a similar pattern anywhere else. And I'd like to make one.

I adore this pattern. I bought a few yards of a beautiful floral rayon challis to make a dress from this pattern, only to find out a few days later that the pattern had sold out! I think Sew Over It showed publish the 1940's Trousers pattern next; it reminds me of my grandmother who taught me how to sew.

Well, I love the Mad Men Betty dress but that might be because it looks like it has been made up in Liberty tana lawn which is such a dream to work with. I would love to attend a class but I rarely go over to the U.K. for long enough to attend anything with more than one session. Tant pis!

That pattern is just amazing, and I love it in coral! It's really hard to choose from the Sew Over It designs... love the shirt dress, joan's madmen dress, the pussy bow blouse... and the pencil skirt is perfect, but I don't know if I would ever manage the fit if it was a pattern... I think I'll vote for the pussy bow blouse!frk.bustad[at]gmail.com

The tea dress is such a lovely design - it's been on my Pinterest since way before there was a pattern.It'd be cool to see the lace dress as a pattern - I reckon people would happily pay for well-written instructions on sewing with lace - I don't think I've seen an indie pattern out there that specifically uses it.I'm dichohecho [at] gmail [dot] com

I'd love the vintage shirt dress. BTW, I clicked on the link to see your version of the 1940's tea dress. I LURV those buttons!! I suppose, if you wanted to use them on another project, you could always get buttons similar in size and alternate them... I'm mary.katherine.parker [at] gmail [dot] com

Oooh I love all the patterns at the Sew Over It classes! It's where I first learnt to put my sewing skills to good use making clothes (so I'm blaming them for my addiction now, hehe!) :) I would really love to see the Joan dress as a pattern as I looove long sleeved dresses for the winter!Email: htheoe@hotmail.com

It's such a toss up between the 1940s Wrap Dress and Joan's Madmen Dress. Both patterns have wonderful details and could be flattering in any number of fabric choices and colours. Since I have to pick one I think I'll go with the 1940s Wrap Dress.

I love the tea dress, it's just like a ready to wear dress I tried on but resisted because I wanted to make my own. As for the next pattern release, I thought it was going to be a difficult decision- until I saw the MadMen Betty dress, then it was no contest!

I think you should do the 1950s summer dress as your next pattern.... it was hard to choose as you have a lot of very nice items that you make for your classes. I had to enter. That 1940's tea dress is LOVELY and I'd love to win a pattern....